Beautiful Gift Bag

Isn't this pretty?! One of the girls in my team gave me this at Christmas with some extremely yummy cookies inside. You can see her blog here.  The cookies didn't last long enough for me to take a picture funnily enough. 
She has used the Mixed Bunch stamp set to decorate the bag in Melon Mambo, Regal Rose and Pretty in Pink ink and attached the tag with Bakers Twine.
Below are some close up pictures of the tag.

Top Tag Tip

No card to share today, sorry. I do however, have a top tip that I picked up at convention this year.  
Need a nice, even chevron cut end to a banner on your card or tag? Use your square punch to get it nice and central!  How easy is that and why hadn't I thought of it ages ago?!!
Another way of making sure the cut is nice and even is to snip from the bottom edge to the centre point and then cut from each corner to the centre. 

A Simple Thankyou

Elegant in its simplicity, this is one of the quickest cards I have ever made I think!  The card stickers are again from Teatime simply scrappin.  The tag is matted onto some coordinating early espresso card and embellished with limeade ruffled ribbon and an antique brad.  A beautiful punched lace border at the bottom complimented by the insert which is stamped with the new Delicate Doilies set.

Christmas gift bag

I'm not really here today, I'm at a Stampin Up team training day in Fareham.  I love team training 'cos I get to meet up with lots of other lovely demonstrators and we share lots of tips and ideas.  One of the highlights for me is swapping card and gift ideas and these are my swaps.

I made them from brown paper lunch bags.  I cut off the handles and then tidied up the edge using the scallop border punch.  You can't see it very in the photo but I have stamped all over the bag with Merry Christmas from Season of Joy stamp set.  I then added a mat of Jolly holiday papers, folded over the top of the bag and punched a circle through both layers.  I punched tags in vanilla and cherry cobbler, again stamping merry christmas in cherry on the vanilla tag.  I daubed more cherry ink around the edge of the vanilla tag and then attached both tags through the hole in the bag using old olive sating ribbon.
The finished bag is big enough to hold a dvd so I can see me making some more of these as the big day approaches!  Hope the other demos like them.

Workshop makes

I had a great day out at the Hobbycraft show at the NEC at the end of last month and I managed to book myself in to a couple of workshops while I was there. The first one I did was with Stephanie Weightman of Create and Craft TV fame where we made this pink rose stepper card. I love the image and it really is a quick and easy make, just assembling the pieces in the right order. The other workshop was with Lisa B where we made this beautiful tag using masking techniques and distress inks. The stamped image is embossed and painted and then some glitter for added bling. I'm going to mount the tag onto a card I think and add some ribbon.

Cheeky Girl

Oops! been nearly a month since I last blogged :S well on this blog anyway; I have been blogging on www.4thhestonlejog.blogspot.com
Anyhow, here is a cheeky little lady! I watercoloured the stamped image and layered her onto orange and yellow bazzil cardstock and attached the tag to the card with a brad. Backed onto a pretty plaid paper and a stamped message added to the bottom. Oh and a dash of glitter to add some bling :O)

Flower Fairy

In this months Cards and Papercraft magazine the free gift was some beautiful Flower Fairy tags. I just adore the Flower Fairies so I couldn't wait to use them. This one is simply backed with a coordinating paper and highlighted with some mirri card. It's missing something but I'm not quite sure what yet.

Please Look After this Bear!

Two slightly different views of the same card here, you can almost see the inside! I discovered a "Lets Make Cards" magazine that I hadn't opened!!!! and the embellishments enclosed with it were all Paddington Bear related, so, here is the first card I made (lifted straight from the magazine suggestions, no imagaination required). The card is really quite tiny, made from the front half of an A6 card. Three Paddingtion images layered to the front edge and inside is a greetings tag attached by a cord and some gold stars for decoration.

Fabulous

Another from the HOTP kit. Cards suitable for men are in short supply round here at the moment so this one fits the bill quite nicely. More muted tones this time, some more of those fabulous brads, button ones this time, some inking to give the message a distressed feel and some ripping and tearing to add interest to the layered papers.

and more!

I went to town on these ones. All fluffy and romantic ! lol

Christmas Tags

I had originally intended these tags as part of a swap on CSF but events rather overtook me and I only got 4 made instead of the 20 I needed :( They didn't go to waste, I used them and only just remembered to snap them halfway through attaching them to presents !! lol
The Snowman image is from Stampin Up, stamped onto white card and matted onto silver mirri and blue card. I watercoloured the images and added just a tad of glitter !

For Alice

Here is the card I have made for my daughter's birthday, she is going to be 14 on Saturday!! The stamp is one I bought at the NEC last weekend coloured with watercolours ( my new favourite technique!) and mounted on a tag and the papers are from Flavia. I hope she likes it.

Amsterdam

Back to the album today. This shows our family holiday to Amsterdam and our tour of the canals. Papers and embellishments are from the Flavia range of papers. I say paper but its much more like card.

Scrapping

These are the first pages of many, I hope! I have been informed by my family that I cannot have a birthday party without some incriminating photographs so I have decided to make them much more palateable for everybody. Wasn't I a cute baby! I wonder what happened!!

30th January 2008

Goodness!! How long is it since I last posted something here? Where has the time gone?

Today I completed a tag book that I had started at a workshop when I visited the craft show at Farnborough a couple of weeks ago. All the papers and ribbons are from Blonde moments, gorgeous colours and lots of lovely papers in their range. I have to confess to making a rather large purchase at their stand later.

More Christmas cards

These were all made using the Anna Griffin kit which was a recent QVC TSV. I'm quite liking this kit and will make a lot more.

Christmas Cards

The first of this years Christmas cards.